But in the second half, when Phillips is forced to board an enclosed lifeboat along with the pirates, the film’s suspense begins to ebb. It’s not that Greengrass’ electrifying style fails him.

April 2009: An American ship captain was held at gunpoint by four Somali pirates inside a lifeboat. The U.S. Navy was on the scene, but Richard Phillips did not see how they could possibly rescue him.

In the second act, Muse and his crew break off from the lead ship (and the other small skiff boat) and pursue the Alabama. Despite the best efforts of Phillips and his unarmed crew, Muse and his ...

Captain Phillips, Paul Greengrass' tense movie about the April 2009 hijacking of the freighter Maersk Alabama by four Somali pirates, is a love song to the patience-through-overwhelming-fire ...

Tom Hanks is returning to the big screen in the drama-thriller Captain Phillips, sailing into theaters Oct. 11.. The two-time Oscar winner spoke to E! News at the New York Film Festival last night ...

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Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi and director Paul Greengrass at a press conference for the film "Captain Phillips," at the New York Film Festival, Sept. 27, 2013. CBS News/David Morgan ...

During the main action of the film, Captain Phillips is held hostage in a lifeboat with the four teenage pirates. Claustrophobic and tense, as a gun is nearly always at the helm of the captain’s ...

For instance, toward the end of the film, Phillips asks his abductors if he can pee on the outside of the lifeboat. They allow it. Phillips takes his chance for a potential escape, and begins ...

Having followed the outbreak of Somali piracy and its feverish media coverage, which began and promptly crested in 2008 and 2009, I went into Captain Phillips, which opens area-wide on Friday ...

Four years after it made headlines, the harrowing ordeal of commercial shipping captain Richard Phillips gets the bigscreen treatment care of verite specialist Paul Greengrass in “Captain ...

Just like the story it’s based on, Captain Phillips is dramatic and exciting and Greengrass’ direction and Hanks’ performance alone make it worth seeing. But one has to wonder how mu ...